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T. H. Green on Property and Moral Responsibility David Crossley, University of Saskatchewan Some philosophers, including Aristotle, have viewed ethical theory as leading on to the study of politics; and many believe that justifications of social and political institutions require appeal to ethical
1 Introduction Political education (PE) in India is imparted through a liberal democratic lens at the school level. However, the view that the Constitution of India is built on the foundations of liberalism solely requires further scrutiny. In the political discourse, a liberal
shared meanings essential for ensuring that citizens adhere to liberal norms in democratic politics (e.g., Peters, 2020). Here we mean pessimism of a more ‘cognitive’ variety – pessimism about the persuasive appeal of liberalism as a political ethos worthy of recognition by a diverse community. In this
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It has often been noted that liberal democracies are facing a serious political crisis. A common reaction to this situation is to call for more comprehensive or more effective liberal democratic education. This volume discusses some of the most important challenges to and critiques of the paradigm of liberal democratic education. In doing so, it offers novel insights into how liberal democratic education can be amended, extended or qualified to address the special challenges of the current political moment.
1 Introduction In current debates on the crisis 1 of democracy, it has frequently been stated that the democratic political culture of civilized debate is declining. Observers diagnose a transformation of political polarization into open hostility, lament the division of society into
democratic decision-making leads to appropriate results. Jason Brennan (2016, p. 161) has raised just such questions in his Against Democracy , opining that “most of my fellow citizens are incompetent, ignorant, irrational, and morally unreasonable about politics.” Most of them, he claims, are either
considering this connection between the political liberalism and democracy is »self-respect«. In the words of Samuel Freeman, »Rawls has a far more robust conception of democracy as a society of free and equal citizens who possess constitutive political power and design social and political institutions that
-making and thereby to demonstrate that political revolutions create conditions for constitutionalism (although they do not a priori establish them). One of the great successes of such a revolutionary transformation is how constitutionalist goals are nurtured, defended and carefully translated into the
–534. – (2002): The Practice of Liberal Pluralism ; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. – (2005): Liberal Pluralism. The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice ; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 9 Literatur 383 Geertz, C. (1973): »Thick Description: Toward an
not engage with the question of whether it is acceptable to promote patriotism in schools. In what follows, I analyse the British values policy from the perspective of the two main positions in contemporary liberal theory, comprehensive liberalism and political liberalism. I highlight in what ways